Re: F40 Sendmail "Connection Refused"

2024-05-19 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/17/24 11:40 AM, Tim Evans wrote: I have sendmail (sendmail-8.18.1-1.fc40.x86_64) on my three home systems, its purpose being handling of LOCAL-ONLY mail.  That is, output from cron jobs, local backup scripts, and the like. (I review these messages using good-ole command-line '

F40 Sendmail "Connection Refused"

2024-05-17 Thread Tim Evans
I have sendmail (sendmail-8.18.1-1.fc40.x86_64) on my three home systems, its purpose being handling of LOCAL-ONLY mail. That is, output from cron jobs, local backup scripts, and the like. (I review these messages using good-ole command-line 'mailx'.) External mail is handled by

Re: sendmail

2023-10-01 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:22:47PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, It seems that 09/09, the sendmail was working fine, but not on 09/16. What was happenning in between these dates: software updates, your changes? Now I get systemctl start sendmail.service [ ... ] Sep 30 23:08:29

Re: sendmail

2023-09-30 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2023-09-30 at 23:22 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Sep 30 23:08:29 Sappho sendmail[88774]: My unqualified host name (Sappho) > unknown; sleeping for retry > Sep 30 23:09:15 Sappho systemd[1]: sendmail.service: start operation timed > out. Terminating. > Sep 30 23:09:15 S

Re: sendmail

2023-09-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 5:45 PM Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Am 30.09.2023 um 23:22 schrieb Patrick Dupre: > > Hello, > > > > It seems that 09/09, the sendmail was working fine, but not on 09/16. > > > > Now I get > > > > systemctl start sendmail.ser

Re: sendmail

2023-09-30 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 30.09.2023 um 23:22 schrieb Patrick Dupre: Hello, It seems that 09/09, the sendmail was working fine, but not on 09/16. Now I get systemctl start sendmail.service Job for sendmail.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status sendmail.service" and "

sendmail

2023-09-30 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, It seems that 09/09, the sendmail was working fine, but not on 09/16. Now I get systemctl start sendmail.service Job for sendmail.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status sendmail.service" and "journalctl -xeu sendmail.service" for detai

Re: Help with Sendmail setup

2023-01-05 Thread Richard
> Date: Thursday, January 05, 2023 14:50:58 -0700 > From: Sbob > > > Update: > > If I run the test command as root, the command completes but the > mail has not arrived in my inbox, it has been 10min > ># echo "test" | sendmail -s "test subje

Re: Help with Sendmail setup

2023-01-05 Thread Sbob
Update: If I run the test command as root, the command completes but the mail has not arrived in my inbox, it has been 10min # echo "test" | sendmail -s "test subject" my_user@my_domain.com # On 1/5/23 14:37, Sbob wrote: All; I have setup a Fedora 37 Server in a V

Help with Sendmail setup

2023-01-05 Thread Sbob
All; I have setup a Fedora 37 Server in a VMWare Workstation VM (Fedora 36 host) I cannot seem to get sendmail working, here are the steps I have taken, following this guide: https://tecadmin.net/install-sendmail-on-fedora/ 1) # dnf install sendmail sendmail-cf 2) Comment out below line in

Re: Sendmail auth mechanisms missing after upgrade to Fedora 37

2022-11-18 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 18 Nov 2022 08:58:02 +0100 (CET) Scott van Looy via users wrote: > Hi, > > Having upgraded to the new Fedora 37, I cannot now send mail via > sendmail remotely using auth. > > Looking at /var/log/maillog, when I try and connect to send an email > I get: &

Sendmail auth mechanisms missing after upgrade to Fedora 37

2022-11-17 Thread Scott van Looy via users
Hi, Having upgraded to the new Fedora 37, I cannot now send mail via sendmail remotely using auth. Looking at /var/log/maillog, when I try and connect to send an email I get: "AUTH warning: no mechanisms” Looking at the application log I can see: 250- Hello , pleased to meet yo

Re: systemd/sendmail problem - seeking help!

2016-05-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > For the umteenth time, I'm wondering if it is time >> to give up KMail ... > I stopped wondering that over 10 years ago, even though I'm a KDE user. As KMail has stopped working for me for outgoing mail, I thought I'd try Thunderbird and Evolution. This has made me

Re: systemd/sendmail problem - seeking help!

2016-05-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 23:36 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > if you need to run > > pre-release F24 for some reason, you've defined yourself as a > > tester so > > reporting problems in the right place is what you're expected to > > do. > I am running F24 (beta)

Re: systemd/sendmail problem - seeking help!

2016-05-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
y". My first suggestion is to run postfix instead. :-) Thanks for the response. Can I avoid using sendmail for outgoing mail on KMail in that way? Is kmail actually using the sendmail server on localhost? Or is it just using the sendmail command to send the email message out? In that c

Re: systemd/sendmail problem - seeking help!

2016-05-25 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 01:26:49PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 05/25/2016 05:08 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >I'm running Fedora-24(beta)/KDE, > >and sendmail/email (through KMail) is failing. > >When I try to send email I get the warning "Failed to transmit mess

Re: systemd/sendmail problem - seeking help!

2016-05-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
; My first suggestion is to run postfix instead. :-) Thanks for the response. Can I avoid using sendmail for outgoing mail on KMail in that way? > Assuming that is not acceptable, what does "systemctl status sendmail" > show? I just tried this again, and I get much the same error

Re: systemd/sendmail problem - seeking help!

2016-05-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > if you need to run > pre-release F24 for some reason, you've defined yourself as a tester so > reporting problems in the right place is what you're expected to do. I am running F24 (beta) because plasma kept crashing in F23, and I found it didn't crash in F24. I certa

Re: systemd/sendmail problem - seeking help!

2016-05-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 22:58 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > For the umteenth time, I'm wondering if it is time > to give up KMail ... I stopped wondering that over 10 years ago, even though I'm a KDE user. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscriptio

Re: systemd/sendmail problem - seeking help!

2016-05-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tom Horsley wrote: >> I would have hoped that someone who can play with systemd >> in a sensible way might be able to suggest a solution. > But for a (possibly) useful suggesting, you might try > my technique for working around utter failures in systemd > (which always seem to have something to d

Re: systemd/sendmail problem - seeking help!

2016-05-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/25/2016 05:08 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm running Fedora-24(beta)/KDE, and sendmail/email (through KMail) is failing. When I try to send email I get the warning "Failed to transmit message", and journalctl has the entry "sendmail.service: PID file /run/sendmail.p

Re: systemd/sendmail problem - seeking help!

2016-05-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 19:09 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > >> I'm running Fedora-24(beta)/KDE, > >> and sendmail/email (through KMail) is failing. > >  > > Then you're on the wrong mailing list. For general F2

Re: systemd/sendmail problem - seeking help!

2016-05-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 25 May 2016 19:09:02 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote: > I would have hoped that someone who can play with systemd > in a sensible way might be able to suggest a solution. I believe you have just defined the empty set :-). But for a (possibly) useful suggesting, you might try my technique for

Re: systemd/sendmail problem - seeking help!

2016-05-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> I'm running Fedora-24(beta)/KDE, >> and sendmail/email (through KMail) is failing. > > Then you're on the wrong mailing list. For general F24 issues, use the > Fedora Test list (F24 isn't released yet). For KDE issues the

Re: systemd/sendmail problem - seeking help!

2016-05-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 13:08 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm running Fedora-24(beta)/KDE, > and sendmail/email (through KMail) is failing. Then you're on the wrong mailing list. For general F24 issues, use the Fedora Test list (F24 isn't released yet). For KDE issues the

systemd/sendmail problem - seeking help!

2016-05-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm running Fedora-24(beta)/KDE, and sendmail/email (through KMail) is failing. When I try to send email I get the warning "Failed to transmit message", and journalctl has the entry "sendmail.service: PID file /run/sendmail.pid not readable (yet?) after start: No su

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
interaction between your cronjob and an MTA and not anything having to do with files in /etc. You said that installing sendmail "did clear up a lot of entries". So, are you still getting errors? As I said, the rss2email package may work best with "sendmail" as opposed to another mta s

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-02 Thread Sudhir Khanger
> an MTA and not anything having to do with files in /etc. > > You said that installing sendmail "did clear up a lot of entries". So, are > you still getting errors? > > As I said, the rss2email package may work best with "sendmail" as opposed to > another

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/02/16 12:32, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Friday 01 Jan 2016 10:25:27 PM Ed Greshko wrote: >> Well, you have a cron job called r2e. What does that contain? It very well >> may have been calling sendmail but it is probable it required "real" >> sendma

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Friday 01 Jan 2016 10:25:27 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > Well, you have a cron job called r2e. What does that contain? It very well > may have been calling sendmail but it is probable it required "real" > sendmail and since you didn't have it installed until now it failed.

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/01/16 17:27, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Friday 01 Jan 2016 8:25:15 AM Ed Greshko wrote: >> It isn't "sendmail" which is placing those log entries. It is "crond" and >> the PID of crond is 1188. It would appear that a cron job is calling

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Friday 01 Jan 2016 8:25:15 AM Ed Greshko wrote: > It isn't "sendmail" which is placing those log entries. It is "crond" and > the PID of crond is 1188. It would appear that a cron job is calling > sendmail and producing those messages. Installing sendmail di

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/31/15 17:52, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > Hi, > > I ran journalctl -b to see what is causing bumblebee to fail. I see the log > is huge. There are thousands of line and the file is as big as 5.1 mb. I see > a > sendmail line over and over. I don't think I use sen

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/31/15 17:52, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > I ran journalctl -b to see what is causing bumblebee to fail. I see the log > is huge. There are thousands of line and the file is as big as 5.1 mb. I see > a > sendmail line over and over. I don't think I use sendmail or wha

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Thursday 31 Dec 2015 12:22:40 PM Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > Hi, > > Is that possible that that way trying to send something but can't do > it as it is sendmail not installed? > > Z I use rss2email to get rss2email in inbox. In rss2email I have chosen to use smtp and it

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/31/2015 03:22 AM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: Is that possible that that way trying to send something but can't do it as it is sendmail not installed? whereis sendmail will give you the answer. I think that it's part of the base install. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Hi, Is that possible that that way trying to send something but can't do it as it is sendmail not installed? Z 2015-12-31 10:52 GMT+01:00 Sudhir Khanger : > Hi, > > I ran journalctl -b to see what is causing bumblebee to fail. I see the log > is huge. There are thousands of lin

sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Sudhir Khanger
Hi, I ran journalctl -b to see what is causing bumblebee to fail. I see the log is huge. There are thousands of line and the file is as big as 5.1 mb. I see a sendmail line over and over. I don't think I use sendmail or what installed it. Dec 31 15:16:06 fedora crond[1188]: /usr

Re: Strange sendmail behaviour

2015-12-28 Thread Stephen Davies
On 29/12/15 00:50, Franta Hanzlík wrote: On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:45:55 +1030 Stephen Davies wrote: On 27/12/15 22:32, Franta Hanzlík wrote: On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:38:43 +1030 Stephen Davies wrote: I am trying to change my sendmail configuration to deliver all "user unknown" e

Re: Strange sendmail behaviour

2015-12-28 Thread Franta Hanzlík
On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:45:55 +1030 Stephen Davies wrote: > On 27/12/15 22:32, Franta Hanzlík wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:38:43 +1030 > > Stephen Davies wrote: > > > >> I am trying to change my sendmail configuration to deliver all "user > >>

Re: Strange sendmail behaviour

2015-12-27 Thread Stephen Davies
On 27/12/15 22:32, Franta Hanzlík wrote: On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:38:43 +1030 Stephen Davies wrote: I am trying to change my sendmail configuration to deliver all "user unknown" emails to a specific account (baduser). I added the DL definition to sendmail.mc and generated test.cf. The

Re: Strange sendmail behaviour

2015-12-27 Thread Franta Hanzlík
On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:38:43 +1030 Stephen Davies wrote: > I am trying to change my sendmail configuration to deliver all "user unknown" > emails to a specific account (baduser). > I added the DL definition to sendmail.mc and generated test.cf. > Then I tested this new c

Re: Strange sendmail behaviour

2015-11-26 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 24 November 2015, Stephen Davies sent: > What have I missed here. Showing the list a configuration file that they might be able to spot a problem with. There's not enough information with your post for someone else to conjure up a solution. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r

Strange sendmail behaviour

2015-11-23 Thread Stephen Davies
I am trying to change my sendmail configuration to deliver all "user unknown" emails to a specific account (baduser). I added the DL definition to sendmail.mc and generated test.cf. Then I tested this new config using: echo who | sendmail -v -Ctest.cf noone and the email was

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-06 Thread Kevin Cummings
; that regard, I own kjchome.homeip.net (I pay for its use). If you do a >> DNS lookup on it, you will find the IP address allocated to me (via >> DHCP) by my ISP. > > It has no MX record, so I'd expect sendmail to just use the IPs > associated with the hostnames (m

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-06 Thread Tim
you do a > DNS lookup on it, you will find the IP address allocated to me (via > DHCP) by my ISP. It has no MX record, so I'd expect sendmail to just use the IPs associated with the hostnames (mailing directly between machines). On the other hand, if they had a MX record pointing to one

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-06 Thread Kevin Cummings
o me". In that regard, I own kjchome.homeip.net (I pay for its use). If you do a DNS lookup on it, you will find the IP address allocated to me (via DHCP) by my ISP. > Foggy memory, here, but sendmail may be looking up MX records to work > out where to send mail, and if there is a public r

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-06 Thread Tim
Total requests: 1 Are you using domain names that you own? Is there a DNS entry that points to someone else's IPs? Foggy memory, here, but sendmail may be looking up MX records to work out where to send mail, and if there is a public record that doesn't relate to your own

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-05 Thread Kevin Cummings
Tue Aug 5 10:19 >>> (Deferred: Connection refused by >>> localhost.localdomain.homeip) >>> >>> Total requests: 1 >> >> It takes a manual flush (/usr/local/bin/runq, where runq is a script to >> r

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-05 Thread Kevin Cummings
ain.homeip) >>> >>> Total requests: 1 >> >> It takes a manual flush (/usr/local/bin/runq, where runq is a script to >> run: sendmail -q) to send them out. >> >> Initially I thought this was a name se

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-05 Thread Kevin Martin
l requests: 1 > > It takes a manual flush (/usr/local/bin/runq, where runq is a script to > run: sendmail -q) to send them out. > > Initially I thought this was a name server problem, but even after > adding entries to /etc/hosts for localhost.localdomain.homeip.net (to > poin

Sendmail problem

2014-08-05 Thread Kevin Cummings
er/Recipient--- > s75EJYwb013189*3981 Tue Aug 5 10:19 > (Deferred: Connection refused by > localhost.localdomain.homeip) > > Total requests: 1 It takes a manual flush (/usr/local/bin/runq, where runq is a script to run: se

Re: strange sendmail behavir

2014-05-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2014-05-18 at 12:38 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > I have root aliased to "webmas...@mydomain.com" in /etc/aliases. When > I use "sendmail -bv root", it shows that the mail will be send to > "webmas...@mydomain.com". > > But

Re: strange sendmail behavir

2014-05-18 Thread Steven Stern
; <mailto:webmas...@mydomain.com> > > <mailto:webmas...@mydomain.com > <mailto:webmas...@mydomain.com>>" in /etc/aliases. When I > > use "sendmail -bv root", it shows that the mail will be send to > > "webm

Re: strange sendmail behavir

2014-05-18 Thread Jack Craig
; mailto:subscribed-li...@sterndata.com>> > > wrote: > > > > I have root aliased to "webmas...@mydomain.com > > <mailto:webmas...@mydomain.com>" in /etc/aliases. When I > > use "sendmail -bv root", it shows that the mail will be send

Re: strange sendmail behavir

2014-05-18 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/18/2014 01:37 PM, Jack Craig wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Steven Stern > mailto:subscribed-li...@sterndata.com>> > wrote: > > I have root aliased to "webmas...@mydomain.com > <mailto:webmas...@mydomain.com>"

Re: strange sendmail behavir

2014-05-18 Thread Jack Craig
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Steven Stern < subscribed-li...@sterndata.com> wrote: > I have root aliased to "webmas...@mydomain.com" in /etc/aliases. When I > use "sendmail -bv root", it shows that the mail will be send to > "webmas...@mydomain.com&qu

strange sendmail behavir

2014-05-18 Thread Steven Stern
I have root aliased to "webmas...@mydomain.com" in /etc/aliases. When I use "sendmail -bv root", it shows that the mail will be send to "webmas...@mydomain.com". But when I use "mail root", the mail goes to "r...@mylocalhost.mydomain.com". Mail

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-21 Thread Dan Thurman
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl So far, the spamming stopped... You changes are random an do not explain why spammers were/are able to misuse your Sendmail. This is what I am trying to understand. I was adding spammers to the access database, only to discover that the access

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-21 Thread Dan Thurman
On 04/21/2014 03:15 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: That's good. It would even be better to know what action has made it stopping. Do you still see spammers trying to misused your Sendmail as a relay? That would be something to be expected once the system got identified as a misusable

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-21 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 21.04.2014 20:02, schrieb Dan Thurman: I found an old posting you made here: http://compgroups.net/comp.mail.sendmail/problem-using-port-587/1312021 The internet does not forget ;) Knute Johnson wrote: [...] :: I want to be able to have the outside world connect to my sendmail on :: port

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-21 Thread Alexander Dalloz
27;)dnl So far, the spamming stopped... You changes are random an do not explain why spammers were/are able to misuse your Sendmail. This is what I am trying to understand. I was adding spammers to the access database, only to discover that the access database was either ignored or the access datab

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-21 Thread Dan Thurman
x27;)dnl So far, the spamming stopped... You changes are random an do not explain why spammers were/are able to misuse your Sendmail. This is what I am trying to understand. I was adding spammers to the access database, only to discover that the access database was either ignored or the access data

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-21 Thread Dan Thurman
u changes are random an do not explain why spammers were/are able to misuse your Sendmail. This is what I am trying to understand. I was adding spammers to the access database, only to discover that the access database was either ignored or the access database record added was bogus to begin with.

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-21 Thread Alexander Dalloz
were/are able to misuse your Sendmail. DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Port=465, Name=MTA-SSL M=s')dnl and DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl are equal. There is no functional difference. And offering the additional daemon on the submission port and enforcing authentication f

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-21 Thread Dan Thurman
On 04/20/2014 02:00 PM, Dan Thurman wrote: On 04/20/2014 01:38 PM, jdow wrote: Heartbleed... Anybody running an OpenSSL server has compromised passwords for anybody using the system at least from when the vulnerability was revealed until it was repaired should consider every password on the sys

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-20 Thread Alexander Dalloz
sendmail server as an open relay even though open-relay is closed? See below. Note STARTTLS=client and deferred deliveries when mail delivery fails and returns errors to my email server? What is your question? As being a massive source of SPAM your MTA is already being blacklisted or at least

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-20 Thread Dan Thurman
identical sendmail.mc configurations. Here is my sendmail.mc file and let me know if there is a problem?: dnl #-- dnl # You MUST enable SASLAUTHD for this to work! dnl #-- include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-20 Thread jdow
Heartbleed... Anybody running an OpenSSL server has compromised passwords for anybody using the system at least from when the vulnerability was revealed until it was repaired should consider every password on the system is compromised. They should ALL be changed, pronto. And you should make sure i

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-20 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Dan Thurman writes: for some reason, spammers are getting through TLS and are bypassing/ignoring access database? I poured over the Internet but have yet to figure it out... The most common way is by hacking the client's PC, and authenticating to the mail server using the stolen loginid and

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/20/2014 12:23 PM, Dan Thurman wrote: How can I prevent spammers from using my sendmail server as an open relay even though open-relay is closed? Use Port 587 and SMTPAuth. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

[OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-20 Thread Dan Thurman
for some reason, spammers are getting through TLS and are bypassing/ignoring access database? I poured over the Internet but have yet to figure it out... How can I prevent spammers from using my sendmail server as an open relay even though open-relay is closed? Note STARTTLS=client and

Simple substitute for sendmail for cron to use

2014-01-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
/user where user is from MAILTO= I suspect there is a variable with this value to feed into the script. Since the default mode for cron is '/usr/bin/sendmail -t' we know that this value is already in the cron output as 'To: MAILTO', so it could be found there as well. So

Where does anacron config sendmail?

2014-01-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Still working on cron without sendmail. I am learning some as I peel the onion. The latest error message is: Jan 19 16:21:23 lx120e.htt-consult.com run-parts[22838]: (/etc/cron.daily) finished prelink Jan 19 16:21:23 lx120e.htt-consult.com anacron[10446]: Job `cron.daily' termi

Re: sendmail ignoring .forward?

2014-01-03 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 01/03/2014 01:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Somewhere I encountered that .forward was deprecated even back in f17, > and I had to stop using it and rely on editing /etc/aliases and running > newaliases. My /root/.forward works perfectly fine here in F20. I forward all root mail to my regu

Re: sendmail ignoring .forward?

2014-01-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/03/2014 12:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 01/03/2014 12:06 PM, Steven Stern wrote: Ignore the previous cron messages. It seems that the mail is going into space because sendmail is not respecting the .forward in my home directory. /home/sdstern/.forward contains \r

Re: sendmail ignoring .forward?

2014-01-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/03/2014 12:06 PM, Steven Stern wrote: Ignore the previous cron messages. It seems that the mail is going into space because sendmail is not respecting the .forward in my home directory. /home/sdstern/.forward contains \r...@sterndata.com which is a valid, external email account but

Re: sendmail ignoring .forward?

2014-01-03 Thread Steven Stern
On 01/03/2014 11:06 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > Ignore the previous cron messages. It seems that the mail is going into > space because sendmail is not respecting the .forward in my home directory. > > /home/sdstern/.forward contains > > \r...@sterndata.com > > which is

sendmail ignoring .forward?

2014-01-03 Thread Steven Stern
Ignore the previous cron messages. It seems that the mail is going into space because sendmail is not respecting the .forward in my home directory. /home/sdstern/.forward contains \r...@sterndata.com which is a valid, external email account but mail sent to "sdstern" goe

My fedup upgrade from F18 to F20, or "When Sendmail won't start"

2013-12-30 Thread Tony Nelson
should note that grub2 was not properly configured to its current set// of modules, even though all packages were up to date (including grub2 and grub2-tools), and: grub2-install /dev/sda was needed to fix that. After the upgrade, sendmail would not start. (Actually it would start but was

Re: how to set up my "fetchmail" on f20 without sendmail?

2013-12-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
try that. i assume that, with this approach, i > > won't need to install sendmail, correct? > > Correct. > > > and if i choose to use > > procmail, will this simply deliver mail for me locally even > > before i start to configure my procmail rules? thanks. &g

Re: how to set up my "fetchmail" on f20 without sendmail?

2013-12-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.12.2013, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > I run fetchmail with option mda "/usr/bin/procmail -t -f -" > > > to deliver (and filter) via procmail. > > > >hmmm ... i may try that. i assume that, with this approach, i > > won't need to

Re: how to set up my "fetchmail" on f20 without sendmail?

2013-12-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:32:17 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > I run fetchmail with option mda "/usr/bin/procmail -t -f -" > > to deliver (and filter) via procmail. > >hmmm ... i may try that. i assume that, with this approach, i > won't need to install

Re: how to set up my "fetchmail" on f20 without sendmail?

2013-12-24 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
"Robert P. J. Day" writes: > since (obviously), without sendmail, nothing is listening on port > 25. so what's the solution these days? a pointer to a web page > somewhere would work just fine. thanks. Since mail at your ISP is most likely going to all go to one use

Re: how to set up my "fetchmail" on f20 without sendmail?

2013-12-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Michael Schwendt : On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:55:14 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: finally getting around to building my new f20 machine and, as i read it, f20 now ships without sendmail. By default. Of course, you could install sendmail, which is still available. so far, to

Re: how to set up my "fetchmail" on f20 without sendmail?

2013-12-24 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:55:14 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >finally getting around to building my new f20 machine and, as i > read it, f20 now ships without sendmail. By default. Of course, you could install sendmail, which is still available. >so far, to match what i&#x

how to set up my "fetchmail" on f20 without sendmail?

2013-12-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
finally getting around to building my new f20 machine and, as i read it, f20 now ships without sendmail. so far, to match what i've used for years, i've installed on my f20 box: * alpine * fetchmail and i've copied over from my old (ubuntu) system the relevant files:

Re: F19 boot hangs on sendmail

2013-10-03 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 13:03:52 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Every time I've seen sendmail hang it was because localhost wasn't > properly defined in /etc/hosts (127.0.0.1). Hmmm Contrary to my post, that machine is not accepting ssh; I get a note saying "no ro

Re: F19 boot hangs on sendmail

2013-10-03 Thread Tom Horsley
Every time I've seen sendmail hang it was because localhost wasn't properly defined in /etc/hosts (127.0.0.1). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Con

F19 boot hangs on sendmail

2013-10-03 Thread Beartooth
I'm running F19 on a T30 thinkpad, upgraded iirc by means of fedup from F18 (which ran fine). Boot messages seem fairly normal (apart from being faint and red- shifted), until they reach sendmail. I get "Started Agent" followed (on the same line, not

Re: sendmail TLS question

2013-08-23 Thread Bill Oliver
Thanks. I'll give that a try. billo On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/23/2013 01:44 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: I'm having a bit of an issue with sendmail. To be honest, this is in a recent installation of CentOS rather than fedora, but the CentOS forum hasn't be

Re: sendmail TLS question

2013-08-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/23/2013 01:44 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: I'm having a bit of an issue with sendmail. To be honest, this is in a recent installation of CentOS rather than fedora, but the CentOS forum hasn't been particularly useful. So, this is a cry of desperation. Several years ago, I n

sendmail TLS question

2013-08-23 Thread Bill Oliver
I'm having a bit of an issue with sendmail. To be honest, this is in a recent installation of CentOS rather than fedora, but the CentOS forum hasn't been particularly useful. So, this is a cry of desperation. Basically, I had been running Fedora 16 on a virtual server, but sin

Re: sendmail & Verizon

2013-03-06 Thread Robert Nichols
unnel service wouldn't be worth much these days Try me, my mail server is still running F14 OK. I've attached the init.d script for a "mailtunnel" service and the "mailtunnel.conf" file that goes in /etc/mail/. You'll need to adjust the parameters to mat

Re: sendmail & Verizon

2013-03-06 Thread Kevin Cummings
[localhost]') define(`RELAY_MAILER', `smtps') define(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', 'tcp $h 25025') 4) Changed my /etc/mail/authinfo file to remove the hostname after AuthInfo: 5) ran make in /etc/mail (this should remake both authinfo.db and sendmail.cf) 6) restarted sendmai

Re: sendmail & Verizon

2013-03-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/05/2013 09:47 PM, Michael E. Maher wrote: Sounds like your best bet is to use stunnel. I don't have a reference for sendmail but you could probably adapt the one for postfix[0] pretty trivially. Debian also has a pretty nice write up[1] on this. There is one other possibility, but

Re: sendmail & Verizon

2013-03-05 Thread Michael E. Maher
ort 465 is the only one being listened on and will not except anything other than an SSL connection at all, so can't really gain any information. Sounds like your best bet is to use stunnel. I don't have a reference for sendmail but you could probably adapt the one for postfix[0] pre

Re: sendmail & Verizon

2013-03-05 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 03/05/2013 05:45 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > > The simple answer is that sendmail can't do that by itself as it has no > support for client-side SSL. You need to use a program such as _stunnel_ > to provide the encryption wrapper. Here is a fedoraproject wiki posting >

Re: sendmail & Verizon

2013-03-05 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
27;t have seen any of the early responses >> >> Once upon a time, I was using a standard, out of the box, sendmail >> configuration to send email directly from my computer to any other on >> the internet. Nice. >> >> Then, while RCN was my ISP, RCN decided th

Re: sendmail & Verizon

2013-03-05 Thread Robert Nichols
Thunderbird instance in the house (and it works), but I want to keep the home network using *my* sendmail server for email, and have *IT* forward to Verizon. (Besides, I have a few scripts that want to send a few housekeeping emails without invoking Thunderbird.) I tried the obvious changes, but I think

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